On a pleasant day last month when I had a number of picky little errands to run, I decided to play hooky by visiting the Knight Equestrian Bookstore, across the road but south a bit from the Edgecomb Eddy School on Route 27. Its owner is Janet Blevins who opened the store 18 years ago, to celebrate her interests in both horses -- she owns two Irish Connemaras -- and books about horses. Her passion for horses began when she was a kid in the 1950s, and she proudly showed me a photograph of herself in the company of Marguerite Henry, author of the beloved classic, Misty of Chincoteague, and other juveniles about horses. So I infer her interest in horse books started at the same time, under the same influence! The Horse is the only topic of books at Knight Equestrian, but the titles run the gamut from children's fiction to highly technical veterinarians' manuals. Janet has been told hers is the largest collection of horse-related books in North America! What subtopic is the bestseller these days, I inquired. "It changes as the population changes," she told me. "Once the stress was on jumping; lately there has been greater interest in dressage, but now people want to know about "easy-gaited" horses."
I also met Janet's two store assistants, Sally Gundersen of South Bristol and Joyce Johnstone from Bath. Although the store's sole focus is equestrian, they will do book searches on request on any topic. Her website is www.knightbooks.com, phone 882-5494, but for us here in town, why not drop in Tuesdays through Saturdays from noon to 6:00 p.m. and browse?
Ruth Bryant reminds us that this year's Annual Meeting of the North Edgecomb Cemetery Fund Association has been scheduled for Saturday, May 14, 10:00 a.m. in the Town Hall. A rather small group will be making rather big decisions, so the officers will welcome your attendance! At last year's meeting, the possibility of offering coffee this year was discussed. It sounded like a good idea at the time. If you don't come, you'll never know how that turned out!
I got a call from Sandy Sarmanian, who is Edgecomb's point person for the Garden Club of Wiscasset's annual plant sale, to be held Saturday, May 14 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Wiscasset Municipal Building. They are looking for perennials of all kinds – iris, hostas, day lilies, delphiniums, phlox, etc. – and small trees and shrubs, like lilacs or forsythia. Donations can be dropped off at Sandy's house at 81 Shore Road or give her a call at 882-7276 for someone to pick them up, or even, if necessary, dig them up!
This plant sale raises funds for the Garden Club of Wiscasset's scholarship fund, to assist college-bound high school students majoring in any of the Earth Sciences: biology and its several subsets, agriculture, ecology, landscaping design, horticulture, forestry, you name it.
Lately, the Edgecomb Town Hall has been graced by a skunk who must have fallen into the well of the window overlooking Lee Smith's Tax Collector desk inside. We called Game Warden Kulis who advised not to attempt rescue but simply to give it a board to climb out on. Last I looked, 3 persons had contributed boards to the hole. When I added my contribution, the animal mooned me, but I'm relieved to report, did not take action.
Clutching a can of tomato juice at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.